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It is weird how the article freely confuses M.2, a physical expansion card form factor, with NVMe, a logical peripheral device interface. The motherboard obviou

It is weird how the article freely confuses M.2, a physical expansion card form factor, with NVMe, a logical peripheral device interface. The motherboard obviously did not gain M.2 slots after the fact, even as the article points out that it has always been possible to use adapters to put M.2 devices into any PCI slot, and there have always been NVMe devices in the larger card form factors. What the platform gained from its new software is NVMe support.

whalesalad 2y ago
is it not in the title? boot support ? even if you populate a pcie card with nvme drives a lot of platforms won't let you boot from it.
- cstrahan 2y ago
  The article received a ton of edits since it was first posted. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43915500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43915500 And see my comment with examples of edits below that.
sjsdaiuasgdia 2y ago
"Notably, Gigabyte has seemingly updated the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard to support booting from NVMe SSDs, like M.2 SSDs, a previously unavailable functionality." "An analysis of the F16f firmware using UEFITool reveals the inclusion of the NVMe DXE trifecta (Nvme, NvmeSmm, NVMEINT13), which is essential for booting from NVMe drives, like M.2." "The motherboard features one SATA III and five SATA II connectors for storage, explaining its initial lack of support for booting from NVMe drives. Nonetheless, users can employ M.2 to PCIe adapters, allowing M.2 drives to connect with the motherboard via its expansion ports." The article says NVMe before it says M.2 for every sentence where M.2 is mentioned. Every time, it's using M.2 as an example of NVMe storage. Given M.2 is the most common format most consumers experience for NVMe storage, this seems sensible. This criticism seems like it's intended for a different article that didn't make the effort to be clear. This one made the effort.
- jeffbee 2y ago
  The article was changed after I read it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250506143644/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/sandy-bridge-era-motherboard-gains-m-2-ssd-boot-support-12-years-after-launch-first-new-bios-in-a-decade-for-decommissioned-motherboard https://web.archive.org/web/20250506143644/https://www.tomsh...
  - cstrahan 2y ago
    Figured I'd provide the old version of those examples from above in the thread. Here are the NEW sentences again, for convenience: "Notably, Gigabyte has seemingly updated the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard to support booting from NVMe SSDs, like M.2 SSDs, a previously unavailable functionality." "An analysis of the F16f firmware using UEFITool reveals the inclusion of the NVMe DXE trifecta (Nvme, NvmeSmm, NVMEINT13), which is essential for booting from NVMe drives, like M.2." "The motherboard features one SATA III and five SATA II connectors for storage, explaining its initial lack of support for booting from NVMe drives. Nonetheless, users can employ M.2 to PCIe adapters, allowing M.2 drives to connect with the motherboard via its expansion ports." And here are the OLD: "Notably, Gigabyte has seemingly updated the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard to support booting from M.2 NVMe SSDs, a previously unavailable functionality." "An analysis of the F16f firmware using UEFITool reveals the inclusion of the NVMe DXE trifecta (Nvme, NvmeSmm, NVMEINT13), which is essential for booting from M.2 drives." "The motherboard features one SATA III and five SATA II connectors for storage, explaining its initial lack of support for booting from M.2 drives."

whalesalad 2y ago

is it not in the title? boot support ? even if you populate a pcie card with nvme drives a lot of platforms won't let you boot from it.

cstrahan 2y ago
The article received a ton of edits since it was first posted. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43915500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43915500 And see my comment with examples of edits below that.

sjsdaiuasgdia 2y ago

"Notably, Gigabyte has seemingly updated the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard to support booting from NVMe SSDs, like M.2 SSDs, a previously unavailable functionality." "An analysis of the F16f firmware using UEFITool reveals the inclusion of the NVMe DXE trifecta (Nvme, NvmeSmm, NVMEINT13), which is essential for booting from NVMe drives, like M.2." "The motherboard features one SATA III and five SATA II connectors for storage, explaining its initial lack of support for booting from NVMe drives. Nonetheless, users can employ M.2 to PCIe adapters, allowing M.2 drives to connect with the motherboard via its expansion ports." The article says NVMe before it says M.2 for every sentence where M.2 is mentioned. Every time, it's using M.2 as an example of NVMe storage. Given M.2 is the most common format most consumers experience for NVMe storage, this seems sensible. This criticism seems like it's intended for a different article that didn't make the effort to be clear. This one made the effort.

jeffbee 2y ago
The article was changed after I read it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250506143644/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/sandy-bridge-era-motherboard-gains-m-2-ssd-boot-support-12-years-after-launch-first-new-bios-in-a-decade-for-decommissioned-motherboard https://web.archive.org/web/20250506143644/https://www.tomsh...
- cstrahan 2y ago
  Figured I'd provide the old version of those examples from above in the thread. Here are the NEW sentences again, for convenience: "Notably, Gigabyte has seemingly updated the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard to support booting from NVMe SSDs, like M.2 SSDs, a previously unavailable functionality." "An analysis of the F16f firmware using UEFITool reveals the inclusion of the NVMe DXE trifecta (Nvme, NvmeSmm, NVMEINT13), which is essential for booting from NVMe drives, like M.2." "The motherboard features one SATA III and five SATA II connectors for storage, explaining its initial lack of support for booting from NVMe drives. Nonetheless, users can employ M.2 to PCIe adapters, allowing M.2 drives to connect with the motherboard via its expansion ports." And here are the OLD: "Notably, Gigabyte has seemingly updated the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard to support booting from M.2 NVMe SSDs, a previously unavailable functionality." "An analysis of the F16f firmware using UEFITool reveals the inclusion of the NVMe DXE trifecta (Nvme, NvmeSmm, NVMEINT13), which is essential for booting from M.2 drives." "The motherboard features one SATA III and five SATA II connectors for storage, explaining its initial lack of support for booting from M.2 drives."